On July 26th to 28th 2019 the InTSEnSE Erasmus+ project was promoted in the 13th Estonian Rural Parliament that took place in Räpina, Põlva County (Southern Estonia). 350 participants, 15 delegations from Estonian counties, guests, partners, politicians, the President of Republic were there for participating. The topics of the parliament were the above: How to organize community[…]

There is good news from Ireland regarding Social Enterprise with the launch of the Rural Conversations report on Wednesday 4th September.   Rural Conversations was a series of events in collaboration with the Department of Rural and Community Development. The series provided a discussion forum for rural development stakeholders.  The themes discussed were economic development, social[…]

In my blog post I wanted to tell you about one of my colleagues that has just founded his own Social Enterprise:- Wrexham Glyndwr University member of staff Dr Peter Hooper has recently started his own social enterprise, based in Wrexham’s Welsh Government-funded Enterprise Hub. The enterprise, Active Writing Limited, runs writing and activity workshops[…]

As social entrepreneurship in Lithuania is getting more popular and recognized by society, it is worth presenting an in-depth policy review by the OECD. First of all, OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – is an intergovernmental economic organization with 36 member countries. OECD’s essential goal is to stimulate economic progress and world trade. According to[…]

On June 28th the annual Conversation festival took place in Cesis town in Latvia. During this event, Social Entrepreneurship Association of Latvia organized a discussion “Is it ok to earn by doing good?”. The panel of this discussion consisted of 8 specialists – Andrs Hermanis from social enterprise BlindArt, founder of the store Otrā Elpa[…]